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Religion & Philosophy

Representing one of the great traditions of Western philosophy, philosophy written in Arabic and in the Islamic world was inspired by Greek philosophical works and the indigenous ideas of Islamic theology.

Influenced originally by Islamic theological speculation, classical philosophers and Christian Scholasticism of the Middle Ages, Jewish thinkers living in Islamic and Christian lands philosophized about Judaism from the ninth to fifteenth centuries.

Music

Afropop radio show with interviews and musical examples. Also, check out the NEH-funded interactive site -- it doesn't appear to be currently maintained and is buggy, but it has some great musical examples.

Art & Architecture

Oxford Art Online is a gateway to full text articles in Grove Art Online, the most comprehensive, scholarly encyclopedic reference, and other art reference resources, including the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, and the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.

ARTstor is a database of more than 1.3 digital images, which can be used for research, teaching and enjoyment in the Humanities and Social Sciences, covering many time periods and cultures, representing architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Images are from museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.

Includes time lines, maps, biographies, articles and entries from major reference sources such as The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic art and Architecture and Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. Special section on Quranic Studies including concordance and verse locator.